[HN Gopher] New bill could bail out US farmers ruined by 'foreve...
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New bill could bail out US farmers ruined by 'forever chemical'
pollution
Author : PaulHoule
Score : 8 points
Date : 2024-06-12 20:45 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
| yfw wrote:
| Why is this not funded from DuPont fines?
| ninininino wrote:
| Because we live in an incredibly corrupt Kleptocracy.
| blackeyeblitzar wrote:
| Because no one is fined or held accountable for these types of
| crimes. Union Carbide (now owned by Dow Chemicals) got barely a
| slap on the wrist for the literal worst industrial disaster of
| all time. Something like forever chemical pollution isn't even
| a blip on the radar of politicians:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
| ratg13 wrote:
| 3M is worse than DuPont
|
| In fact, DuPont gets their forever chemicals from 3M
|
| 3M has known for decades that their chemicals were toxic to
| humans and also getting into people's bloodstreams, and once
| they figured this out, they hid all of their knowledge and
| increased the output.
|
| https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas...
| pkaye wrote:
| > PFAS are a class of around 15,000 compounds that are dubbed
| "forever chemicals" because they don't naturally break down,
| accumulating in the human body and environment.
|
| Under this definition would lead be considered a forever
| chemical?
| killingtime74 wrote:
| Yet again privatized profits socialized losses
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